Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A hypothetical language group that comprises the Uralic and Altaic language families.
from The Century Dictionary.
- See
Altaic .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Of or pertaining to the Urals and the Altai; as the
Ural-Altaic , or Turanian, languages.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- proper noun A conjectural
grouping of theUralic andAltaic language families, implying a common ancestor that lacks recognition among most current comparative linguists.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a (postulated) group of languages including many of the indigenous languages of Russia (but not Russian)
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Examples
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Predominant in the religious systems of Siberia and the Ural-Altaic peoples, it also played an important -- if somewhat more subordinate role -- in North America and elsewhere.
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Predominant in the religious systems of Siberia and the Ural-Altaic peoples, it also played an important -- if somewhat more subordinate role -- in North America and elsewhere.
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And others try the controversial Ural-Altaic route.
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Was that in Maths, Ural-Altaic languages, ... or some tedious non-subject?
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Many scholars but not all place Korean in the Ural-Altaic family of languages, the same one that includes Japanese as well as Hungarian and Finnish.
ASIAN BUSINESS CUSTOMS & MANNERS MARY MURRAY BOSROCK 2007
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Many scholars but not all place Korean in the Ural-Altaic family of languages, the same one that includes Japanese as well as Hungarian and Finnish.
ASIAN BUSINESS CUSTOMS & MANNERS MARY MURRAY BOSROCK 2007
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Many scholars but not all place Korean in the Ural-Altaic family of languages, the same one that includes Japanese as well as Hungarian and Finnish.
ASIAN BUSINESS CUSTOMS & MANNERS MARY MURRAY BOSROCK 2007
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For example, Chukchi is an early cousin of Eskimo and Aleut (which appear to have links to both Ural-Altaic and Indo-European) while Yukaghir turns out to be a distant relative of Hungarian and Finnish (Uralic), ditto Koryak.
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The Bulgars, a people of mixed Ural-Altaic and Indo-European origin, had pressed westward through the lands of today's southern Russia and Ukraine.
648 2001
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The Huns, nomadic Mongols of the Ural-Altaic group, probably under pressure from the Zhu-Zhu Empire in Asia, swept into Europe in the 4th century and halted for some fifty years in the valley of the Danube and Theiss.
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